« All Great Speed Quotes
·
George Steiner's Page
Great Speed Quotes by George Steiner
1 Great Speed quote by George Steiner
More Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
-
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
-
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
-
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
-
The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
-
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
-
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
-
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
-
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
-
The age of the book is almost gone.
-
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
-
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
See all 77 quotes by George Steiner »
More Great Speed Quotes
Popular Great Speed quotes from across the collection:
-
Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend PelĂ© has often said that soccer stars are…
— Pele
-
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
— George Steiner
-
It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight…
— Jules Verne
-
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still…
— Jean Genet
-
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The…
— Rachel Carson
-
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at…
— Rachel Carson
-
We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind.…
— Mark Millar
-
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs…
— Kristen Britain
See all Great Speed Quotes »
Browse George Steiner Quotes by Category